news in the pews

SUNDAY 25th JANUARY		EPIPHANY 3
8.30 a.m.	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 a.m.	Holy Communion (CW) at Burton Overy
SUNDAY 1st FEBRUARY		EPIPHANY 4
8.30 am	Communion (BCP) at Burton Overy
10.30 am	All Age with Baptism at Great Glen
SUNDAY 8th FEBRUARY		2nd SUNDAY BEFORE LENT
8.30 am	Holy Communion (BCP) at Great Glen
10.30 pm	Holy Communion (CW) at Great Glen
6.30 p.m.	Evensong at Burton Overy

At Communion Services

If you are a communicant member of a Christian Church, you are welcome to come up to receive the bread and wine.  Otherwise you are welcome to either remain in your seat or come up to receive a blessing.  Keeping your hands down by your side will signify to the Vicar that you wish to receive a blessing.   If you have difficulty coming up to the Communion Rail and would like the Vicar to come to you, then please inform a sidesman.

 

DIARY

Monday 26th January

9.30 a.m.  Sparklers at Methodist Church

1.00 p.m.  Funeral of Doreen Randall at St Andrew's Burton Overy

Tuesday 27th January –

7.30pm  Bible Study House Group, The Springs, Carlton Lane, Burton Overy

Wednesday 28^th January

9.00 a.m. Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday 30^th January

7.15 pm  Choir Practice at Great Glen

Monday 2^nd February

9.30 a.m.  Sparklers at Methodist Church

Wednesday 4^th February

9.00 a.m.  Prayer Group at St Cuthbert’s Church

Friday 6^th February

7.15 pm  Choir Practice at St Cuthbert’s Church

MORNING PRAYER

Mondays and Tuesdays – 8.40 a.m. at St Peter’s;

Wednesdays and Thursdays – 8.30 am at *St Cuthbert’s;

Fridays and Saturdays – 8.40 am at St Paul’s.

*There will still be a prayer meeting at St Cuthbert’s on Wednesdays at 9.00 am.  There is a Prayer Request Box at the back of St Cuthbert’s Church – please do use it and encourage everyone to use it whether they share our faith and our church-going habits or not!

NOTICES

TEAM ALPHA COURSE- The course is taking place on Wednesday evenings during January and February from 7pm to 9pm at St Paul's in Oadby.  If you have any questions please call Kim on 0116 2592238 or see her after a service.

LENT COURSE - This year the theme is 'God Has No Favourites.'  We will start off the theme with Ash Wednesday (18^th February) at St Cuthbert's and then the following five weeks at the Methodist Church.  There will be teaching and a chance for good discussion.  Come and join one or all of the sessions. More details to come soon.

WELLSPRING Sunday January 25^th 6.30pm Trinity Methodist Church.  WellSpring is a new ecumenical evening service on the 4^th Sunday of each month.  Its launch takes place on Sunday 25^th January.  Lead by Emily Walker, Director of Music at St Peter’s Oadby, this is a service that offers refreshment, reflection and challenge.  WellSpring will draw on a wide range of music and spirituality from Iona, Taizé, and the worldwide church.  

OADBY COMMUNITY CHOIR  Tuesdays from 27^th January 7.30pm – 9.00pm Trinity Methodist Church.  This is a new initiative: singers of all abilities are welcome to come and join what will be an entirely new choir.  Directed by Emily Walker, the Oadby Community Choir offers fun and singing in equal measure. Everyone welcome.

WORSHIP CENTRAL GATHERING Sunday 1^st February at 6.30 p.m., Central Baptist Church, Charles Street.  At the start of this new year there will be worshippers gathering all over the world in at least 100 different locations drawing people together to worship, pray and connect with the vision of Worship Central: to see the worship of Jesus Christ made central in society again!  As part of this global vision come and join a local gathering here in Leicester:

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SIDESMAN ? The job of sidesperson is very important.  Why?  Because you should be the first person anyone walking into a church service sees.  The reception one gets when walking into a church for the first time, or even into a different church, can be a decisive point as to whether one makes a return visit.  We would like more volunteers especially for 10.30 services.  If you would like to be included please let Amy Cook know so that your name can be presented at the next AGM.  It is not an arduous job, it just involves meeting and greeting people, giving out books, taking the collection and collecting the books in again at the end of the service.

GREETINGS CARDS  Please do have a look at the cards in church which are for sale.  There are several new ones.  Mother’s Union cards are priced at cost and that money goes towards funding Mother’s Union projects around the world. There are other cards in a separate box which are either handmade or from redundant stock for which we would appreciate a voluntary donation for church funds.

WHY NOT put an extra can or packet in your shopping basket to bring to church services.  St Cuthbert’s supports Leicester Cathedral’s Welcome Group for destitute asylum seekers and St Andrew’s supports a homeless charity.  Suggestions: rice, pasta (mainly spaghetti), oil, sugar, tea, coffee, tinned goods (tomatoes, fruit, meat, fish, baked beans and sweet corn), shampoo, shower-gel, toothpaste, deodorants, shaving cream/gel.

CHURCH BREAKFAST
The church breakfast, which is growing in numbers and takes place after the 8.30am service on the second Sunday in the month. We have coffee and croissants during an informal fellowship time, where we chat and share news and have a laugh! The 8.30am service on the second Sunday of the month is always at St Cuthbert’s Great Glen, and all are welcome. The next breakfast will be on the 8th March

LIFTS TO SERVICES – If you need a lift to any of our services, please contact Howard Bartlett (259 3747) at Glen or Richard Bloor (259 2440) at Burton Overy and they will arrange one for you.

KEEPING PEOPLE IN TOUCH – Please do take copies of this news-sheet to anyone you know who might be interested, especially to those who can’t get to church at the moment.

 

Please pray for:-

·         Margaret Wood, Peter Wood, Arthur Whitfield, Heather Alexander, Chris Taylor, Margaret Bannister, Christine Higgins, Kimberley Tyler, Alan Selway, and all who are ill.

·         the soul of Doreen Randall who passed away recently

·         Bella Richards who is being baptised on the 1st of February. 

·         the people in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Gaza, and all other places of conflict in the world, that peace may return.

·         the hostages held by IS militants.

·         those held hostage by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Cameroon

·         all those suffering from the Ebola virus and the aid workers who are treating them.